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But the challenge is this: either accept a narrow target audience, or to
enhance the real-time experience so that mere mortals can appreciate it on exhibit.
Herb Johnson my 25 cents'
The best "kids" videos have something to entertain for all ages; when a family watches together the adult jokes just fly right over the kids' heads but the adults can bare to watch the story. They Might Be Giants "Here comes the ABC's" comes to mind as an example. Same concept applies to vintage computer computer exhibits...visual presentation, clear higher level message, a good photo opportunity, something "to do", invitation/mechanism for those who want to learn more. Most persons spend a few seconds at each exhibit, focus on the hardware, don't want to read much, most anyway. Personally I have often put the meat and potatoes content into the machine exhibited, people can sit at the machine and take a quiz, print something they can take home for further reading, video screen slideshow, etc. I keep the posters' text to a minimum, avoid posters with paragraphs and paragraphs of text. Yawn. Bill Degnan twitter: billdeg vintagecomputer.net